• IBB Ventures led a Series A round at Berlin-based Ascléa, formerly x-cardiac, alongside business angels.
• Quercus and Catalpa Ventures joined the investor group; the company did not disclose the amount raised.
• Ascléa develops Clé, a platform for hospitals to run language models and agentic AI under sovereign control on-premise or via European providers.
• Proceeds will fund product development as Ascléa expands beyond cardiac-surgery risk prediction into broader clinical AI workflows.

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